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Japan’s Jimi ‘Mundane’ Halloween Costumes of 2022

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I don't know a whole lot about the intricacies of Japanese culture, but that overburdened school kid on the last day bringing home some random project that they will immediately forget about until they see Mom throw it away a month later is more universal than I previously suspected.

"I'm Crazy Gyoza Dippin' Sauce Guy! Look at me! I tried mixing the dippin' sauce just right, but I'm so ca-razy I overdid it, and now I got too much dippin' sauce! Now gimme some candy!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0HpP8BA1DQ

Sounds like a Rick & Morty bit.

I doubt the sensitivity readers on today's R&M (or even more so, SNL) writing team would allow the word "crazy" to be used in this way. It marginalizes and stigmatizes mental illness.

There's always one twit who has to bring their personal political baggage everywhere they go.

Right? and that was a particularly ridiculous version of it that read like it was parody to any non "crazy" person.

I felt seen

Next year I will dress up as "Person on Zoom call who is holding their hands up unnaturally high to show that they're clapping"

just plain "person on Zoom call" would be good: wear a dress shirt w/ tie and a pair of sweatpants, and keep doing exaggerated nods and smiles with eyes extra wide open.

... sliding chair to the side when getting up, to keep pajama pants off camera.

Uh oh. Is it that obvious?

I generally assume that other people on Zoom are not wearing pants. It would be quite shocking if someone stood up and revealed their dress pants.

I've been in Zoom meetings all morning... wearing Christmas pug pajama pants.

Dress pants would be... odd. Those things are to decorate closets, right?

Closets? Don't you store these at the dry cleaner's until it's time to pick them up for your cousin's wedding?

scarier: hoodie on top, shined shoes on bottom

Two comments and already hugged to death.

Things like this are why I keep trying to tell my coworkers they’re doing it wrong. Per visit customization should be a progressive feature. The base experience should be static, cached or debounced.

I feel like there is more context I'm not getting from the blog.

It's every day type costumes that involve some awkwardness to them + the irony of dressing up as nothing special / unusual?

This is entirely new to me, but the impression I have is that it's _somewhat_ about the awkwardness but _way more_ about the extreme specificity. My Seinfeld neurons are firing like mad in sympathetic response.

yep, that's it.

The "gag" is more that there are so many mundane things that we all experience but are so mundane that they're invisible until pointed out.

I think my #1 favorite from last year was a guy whose lanyard was twice as long as the others. That's it.

is this actually a trend or just something that 5 people did

Archived: https://archive.vn/TVyF1

Database error.

Nah, that's just a "too many connections hug" costume that the server is wearing.

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